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Pretty close, in some ways I like my Mandrake 10.2 the best for not wasting my time, I like Fedora too, sort of a tie but Mandrake is solid compared to this 64bit Fed. The newer Mandriva's I have not tried.

Yes it looks like you would not want to walk that path with that large list. But I was thinking removing the two (123) libs "elfutils-libelf-0.123-1.fc6.i386 & elfutils-libs-0.123-1.fc6.i386", that is if they are installed along with the newer (125) of the same packages, check in the list tab of the GUI software updater via main menu/system to see if there is a check mark next to them, meaning they are installed.

EDIT: If you look at the Mandriva forum you will probably notice allot less people needing help by looking at the time between threads/posts, could be there are allot less people using it also, but you won't see any rpm problems other than dependencies needed because they did not use urpmi instead of basic rpm commands.

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Originally Posted by Micro420

Uninstalling and reinstalling the elfutils still gives me errors.

I downloaded each of those elfutils RPM's into a directory. When I run your command to force it to install and upgrade, it still won't let me! Still gives me dependency conflicts, even with the --force option!

Code:

[root@localhost elfutils]# ls

elfutils-0.125-1.fc6.i386.rpm

elfutils-devel-0.125-1.fc6.i386.rpm

elfutils-devel-static-0.125-1.fc6.i386.rpm

elfutils-libelf-0.125-1.fc6.i386.rpm

elfutils-libelf-devel-0.125-1.fc6.i386.rpm

elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.125-1.fc6.i386.rpm

[root@localhost elfutils]# rpm -Uvh --force elfutils*.rpm

error: Failed dependencies:

        elfutils > 0.123-1.fc6 conflicts with elfutils-libs-0.123-1.fc6.i386

        elfutils-devel > 0.123-1.fc6 conflicts with elfutils-libs-0.123-1.fc6.i386

        elfutils-libs < 0.125-1.fc6 conflicts with elfutils-libelf-0.125-1.fc6.i386

        elfutils-libelf = 0.123-1.fc6 is needed by (installed) elfutils-libs-0.123-1.fc6.i386

Now what do I do?

I would say that go with rpm and instead of upgrading install.

Code:

rpm -ihv --force --nodeps elfutils*.rpm

After that see if you can remove those older elfutils with yum so that you don't have to remove whole system.

Use the command

Code:

#rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force elfutils*.rpm

Next time I will try to put the --nodeps option. Maybe that would have forced the installation.

I did reinstall FC6 and update my system. This time everything worked out fine and there are no dependency conflicts. I am crossing my finger and hoping that that one time was just a fluke and it won't happen again. I also like that the installation of FC6 gave me the option of using NIS or LDAP as a logon authentication. I have an Ubuntu NIS and FC6 easily picked up my accounts and services from the Ubuntu machine. Things are looking good already!

Is there a "light" version of FC6 on 1 CD? I find that a lot of programs installed by default are ones that I do not need. I want to use FC6 as a light server or console only workstation with the bare minimum.

Well, I did at least 15 fresh installations of FC6 and always had the same Frysk update issue, glad to see that did'nt happen to you. You do have the choice during installation to customize the package selection when presented with the default selection. I learned to use that option and made my installation as light as I wanted, install KDE instead of Gnome, install only development tools & libraries instead of Firefox-devel and X11-devel packages etc. that get installed when just adding default development packages. Through the "customize now" option you can pre-select/de-select every individual package to your liking.